Monday, April 6, 2015

A brief synopsis of the situation. French and English (Google translation) language versions of the situation (as described by AJ) are included below.

The government of Martelly/Lamothe granted a license for the construction of Port Lafito and hastened to build seven miles of road between Simonette and this Lafiteau development project. Workers in Cabaret calculated the creation of 25,000 jobs, not counting indirect jobs create by support industries with wages equivalent to Northern industries. It was unbelievable, a people who felt abandoned by their own government had the glimmer of hope that for once the private sector was living up to their mission.

However, Two years later, when the projects were well advanced in their construction and were about to become operational, Unibank made a sudden appearance to do everything to stop the project, under the pretext that the project lands belong to them.

The Unibank has indicated that 10 years ago the heirs had promised them the sale of what had been desert land but was suddenly flourishing, and that even if they have not paid for these lands, they belonged to them. The population immediately decried this unacceptable 'commercial banking dictatorship.'

The people of Lafiteau (Cabaret) are fighting for the right to work and earn an honest living in the face of a duplicitous land-grab by Unibank of Haiti.

The claim is not simple and is related to the fact that the Baussan group has a monopoly (offered under Préval) on port activities in Haiti, and believes that its interests would be jeopardized by competition from these port sites in Lafiteau, too close to Moulins d'Haiti owned by Unibank. The Unibank Group seeks to get their hands on the neighboring lands according to angry farmers.

English translation by GoogleLAFITEAU-Unibank CASE: POPULAR MOBILIZATION LAFITEAU (CABARET) CONTINUOUS
By Alicia Joseph

Here we are in the town of Cabaret, specifically, in the heart of communal sections of Sub Mattresses, Simonette Titanyen and Lafiteau. A region of the country that the time seems to have forgotten where the development side has completely ignored. This is a desert region where the wind is constantly stirring up dust, a constant reminder to the population of a dark future and without hope.

In 2012, two years after the destruction of Port-au-Prince by the earthquake, a project of integrated economic area was announced for the 9th communal section of Cabaret in Lafiteau.

The government Martelly / Lamothe infused funds from the BNC, the Industrial Development Fund (IDF) was involved and the World Bank offered some funding. The government granted a license for the construction of Port Lafito and hastened to build seven miles of road between Simonette and Lafiteau this development project.

Groups of workers in Cabaret calculèrent the possibility of 25,000 jobs not counting indirect jobs create by the support industries with wages as those used in the North of industries. We do not believe it!

CLAIMS BY THE POPULATION OF LATIFEAU

During an eventful meeting with investors, the leader of trade unionists Lafiteau, Jules Daguerre, on behalf of the demands of the masses, required the installation of a power plant of 25 megawatts, to serve the population of Cabaret, issue to send a clear signal and relegate the dark past.

They demanded a living wage and the right to engage in trade unions inside the factories. They asked each other a water treatment plant. Indeed, water scarce rains, which now only remove the land from the surrounding hills to the sea should be caught and held in three pools that can hold 21 million gallons of water.

The Port is Lafto since investments of approximately $ 150 million US dollars for the next two years and will certainly exceed $ 300 million by its completion, according to its promoters GBGroupe. Farmers unions and workers were quickly formed cooperatives like those of Brazil and Cuba to demand and obtain the creation of a fertilizer plant for distribution cooperatives. This huge modern industrialization project became communalist.

A glimmer of hope for a people who felt abandoned by their own government. For once the Haitian private sector showed up to its mission.

Two years later, when the projects well advanced in their construction was about to become operational, Unibank made a sudden appearance to do everything to stop, under the pretext that the project lands belong to him.

Unibank has indicated that there is 10 years old heirs had made him a promise of sale on these desert lands suddenly become successful, and that even if she had not paid the land belongs to him. The people shouted at once to a "commercial banking dictatorship" unacceptable.

The claim is not simple and is related to the fact that the Baussan group has a monopoly (which had offered him Préval) on port activities in Haiti, believes that its interests would be jeopardized by

competition from these port sites Lafiteau, too close to Moulins d'Haiti owned Unibank. The Unibank Group seek to get their hands on the land of his neighbor, according to the farmers angry.

CAPITALISM AND FREE MARKET

Like all Haitian capitalists who do not respect the principle of free market and free competition, Baussan and associates of Unibank waved their guns and obtained the Court in summary proceedings, a stop work.

"The Unibank has entered a battle without title or quality," according to the heirs who afirment have never negotiated sale of their land to this bank "greedy enough", they say, has the DINEPA (Direction Nationale d Drinking Water) National (which controls the oil distribution in Haiti) and brews all kinds of financial affairs including those of Milling she renamed Moulins d'Haiti, plus possession of Haiti to the Warf through Baussan.

The objective would be to boycott Lafiteau, according to leaders of the area. For an order against the GBGroupe, the bank would have used "subterfuge" judge who had admitted in court that he was not qualified to make judgments about property rights nevertheless ordered the closure building sites.

With this ruling, lawyers Unibank accompanied by a magistrate and police conducted the closure of sites and the arrest of two illegal workers. Since the roads are blocked in the area intermittently and manifestations of peasants and workers continue without stop. The Port Lafito and heirs Old and Roy would have sued Unibank and a hundred of these workers have signed a petition against the Unibank.

At each event, landed trucks UDMO making use of tear gas and batons to reopen roads and clubbing protesters. Some of these agents have ransacked the houses and huts in the area. Some media are reluctant to report abuse we learned. Some radio stations have received threats cancellation of advertisements, others recall threats of their credit lines. And finally, others have seen their monthly payments publicity lined with contracts over a year, according to some rumors.

"If confirmed it would be sad to see these unevraie media couber is under the influence of an economic dictatorship after struggling so long and hard for the freedom of the press and get the orders!" some observers lament. It would be a sad to see the oath of Theophrastus who recalled that the press must resist pressure completely violated.

Imagine what it means if a bank came to oppose the free competition in the maritime sector, contrôlertait police, justice and influence would buy a portion of the press?

The people of Lafiteau (Cabaret) refuse even to think. They continue to fight for the right to work and earn an honest their lives, after their leaders. They fight, they say for a better future in a country where, unfortunately, this hope is often reduced to nothingness.

Working for a free humanity and give hope to the population that does not claim the right to exist ...

Unibank, S.A. is one of Haiti's two largest private commercial banks. The bank was founded in 1992 by a group of Haitian investors and is the main company of Groupe Financier National (GFN). It opened its first office in July 1993 in downtown Port-au-Prince and has 38 branches throughout the country as of 2010.

Today, Unibank is the parent company of a group of subsidiaries each concentrating in a specific financial area. Read more at: unibankhaiti.com

For more information on protests, marches, boycots and other activities in solidarity with the farmers of Lafiteau contact: Alicia Joseph at haitinewsgroup@gmail.com

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